Jürgen Prochnow
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Jürgen Prochnow (born 10 June 1941) is a German-American actor. His international breakthrough was his portrayal of the good-hearted and sympathetic U-boat Commander "Der Alte" ("Old Man") in the 1981 war film Das Boot. He is also known for his roles in The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum (1975), Dune (1984), Beverly Hills Cop II (1987), In the Mouth of Madness (1994), The English Patient (1996), Air Force One (1997), The Da Vinci Code (2006), and played Sergei Bazhaev on the eighth season of 24 (2010). He is a Goldene Kamera, Bavarian Film Awards, and Bambi Award winner. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jürgen Prochnow, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known for
Credits
Beverly Hills Cop II (1987)
as Maxwell Dent
Judge Dredd (1995)
as Judge Griffin
Dune (1984)
as Duke Leto Atreides
The Da Vinci Code (2006)
as André Vernet
Primeval (2007)
as Jacob Krieg
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992)
as Woodsman
Das Boot (1981)
as Lieutenant 'Der Alte'
Hitman: Agent 47 (2015)
as Tobias
In the Mouth of Madness (1995)
as Sutter Cane
Air Force One (1997)
as Alexander Radek
Beerfest (2006)
as Baron Wolfgang von Wolfhausen
The English Patient (1996)
as Major Muller
Remember (2015)
as Rudy Kurlander #4
The Replacement Killers (1998)
as Michael Kogan
Body of Evidence (1993)
as Dr. Alan Paley
House of the Dead (2003)
as Kirk
Poison (2000)
as Carl Krieger
A Hidden Life (2019)
as Major Schlegel
The Seventh Sign (1988)
as David Bannon
Wing Commander (1999)
as Cdr. Paul Gerald
The Keep (1983)
as Captain Klaus Woermann
Forbidden (1984)
as Fritz Friedländer
Nanking (2007)
as John Rabe
The Last Rifleman (2023)
as Friedrich Mueller
Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces (2014)
as Woodsman
Company of Heroes (2013)
as Luca Gruenewald
Final Ascent (2000)
as Paul
The Celestine Prophecy (2006)
as Jensen
Last Run (2001)
as Andrus Bukarin
DNA (1997)
as Dr. Carl Wessinger
Real Men (2019)
as Himself - Actor
Esther (1999)
as Haman
The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum (1975)
as Ludwig Götten
Robin Hood (1991)
as Sir Miles Folcanet
Murder: By Reason of Insanity (1985)
as Adam Berwid
Blitz (1985)
as Ralph Korda
A Dry White Season (1989)
as Captain Stolz
Merlin and the War of the Dragons (2008)
as The Mage
Damascus Cover (2017)
as Franz Ludin
Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau (2014)
as Self (archive footage)
Lie Down with Lions (1994)
as Marteau
The Fourth War (1990)
as Col. Valachev
Ripper: Letter from Hell (2001)
as Detective Kelso
Sinners and Saints (2010)
as Mr. Rhykin
Shirin's Wedding (1976)
as Aida
The Cry of Love (1997)
as Holger
The Merchant of Four Seasons (1972)
as Man at the Meeting Table
Dark Asylum (2001)
as Dr. Fallon
The Man Inside (1990)
as Günter Wallraff
Old Agent Men (2017)
as Kern
Guns of Honor (1994)
as Jack Neumann
Tenderness of the Wolves (1973)
as Hehler
Hurricane Smith (1992)
as Charlie Dowd
Fesseln (1995)
as Günther
The Dark Side of the Moon (2016)
as Pius Ott
The Consequence (1977)
as Martin Kurath
Terminus (1987)
as Sir / Doctor / Yellow Truck's Driver
Devil's Paradise (1987)
as Escher
Interceptor (1992)
as Phillips
The Final Journey (2017)
as Eduard
Rilke Projekt: Zwischen Tag Und Traum (Live 2005) (2005)
as Self
The Elite (2001)
as Avi
Spear of Destiny (2010)
as Baron Von Haan
Chain Reaction (2006)
as Police Man
Das Boot: Behind The Scenes (1981)
as Self
Die Kinder meiner Tochter (2013)
as Ernst Blessing
The Sleeper Must Awaken: Making Dune (2021)
as Self (voice) (archive footage)
Jack the Dog (2001)
as Klaus
Baltic Storm (2003)
as Erik Westermark
See Arnold Run (2005)
as Arnold Schwarzenegger
Half Brothers (2016)
as Herr Dryser
Heaven's Fire (1999)
as Quentin Darby
Heart of America (2003)
as Harold Lewis
Kill Cruise (1990)
as The Skipper
A World War II Fairy Tale: The Making of Michael Mann's 'The Keep' (2025)
as Self
Gunblast Vodka (2001)
as Sacha Roublev
The Guardian Angel (2018)
as Albert Klosser
Love is Forever (1983)
as General Siegfried Kaplan
Das Boot Revisited: An Underwater Success Story (2021)
as Self - Das Boot Actor
Kotte (1979)
as Günther Kotte
U-96, The True Story of 'Das Boot' (2023)
as Self (archive footage)
The Cop & the Girl (1985)
as Der Bulle
The old Man and the Pain in the Neck (2020)
as Wilhelm Schürmann
La conjura de El Escorial (2008)
as Espinosa
Der blonde Affe (1999)
as Jan Vleuten
The Last Stop (2000)
as Fritz
A Handful of Water (2020)
as Konrad
Knast (1972)
as Roloff
Stallone's Law: The Making of 'Judge Dredd' (1995)
as Himself
Schroeder's Wonderful World (2007)
as John Gregory
So weit das Auge reicht (1980)
as Alexander Späh
Destination Dune (1983)
as Self
Julie, chevalier de Maupin (2005)
as Le baron Hengen
The Last Border (1993)
as Duke
Der Fall Lucona (1993)
as Jorunalist Strasser
On Dangerous Ground (1996)
as Carl Morgan
The Brutalization of Franz Blum (1974)
as Franz Blum
Unternehmer (1970)
as Arnold
Killing Cars (1986)
as Ralph Korda
The Fall (1999)
as József Kovács
One or the Other of Us (1974)
as Bernd Ziegenhals
Human Bomb (1998)
as Gerhardt Dach
Ohne Gnade (2013)
as Helmutchen
The Poet (2003)
as Vashon
The Other Side of the Law (1994)
as Simon McQuarie
From China with Love (1998)
as Paul Konen
Davon stirbt man nicht (2002)
as Everett Burns
The Millennium Disaster - Computer Crash 2000 (1999)
as Hans Hagemann
Hans in Luck (1976)
as Hans Schmidtke
War and Peace (1982)
as Kevin
Amigo - Dead on Arrival (2010)
as Fredo Kovacs
Trigger Fast (1994)
as Jack Neumann
Auf Befehl erschossen (1972)
as Franz Sass
Die Schuld der Erben (2012)
as Kurt Hanson
Oko ve zdi (2009)
Actor
Ohne einander (2007)
as Ernest
Operation Ganymed (1977)
as Oss
Die Wildnis (1993)
as Brenner
Zoff (1972)
as Joky
Ein schmaler Grat (2013)
as Uwe Wolfmann
Tödliche Wahl (1995)
as Alex Bronner
The Schoolmaster (1990)
as Rozinsky